Leda and the Swan
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- Created on: 04-05-14 13:40
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- Leda and the Swan
- Context
- Based around the Greek mythology of Leda and the Swan, where Zeus ****s a Leda in the form of a swan and later falls pregnant with Helen of Troy. He used this tale to represent England's boisterous control over Ireland.
- Form
- Is a petrarchan sonnet, which is ironic because it is usually used in poems about love, however, this poem is quite dark and violent
- Meaning
- Consensual or ****?
- In some parts of the poem, it sounds as though Leda is giving herself to Zeus, whereas in other parts of the poem it sounds as though she is being ****d.
- Consensual: "Her thighs caressed" "loosening thighs" "A shudder in the loins"
- ****: "helpless" "her nape caught in his bill" "terrified vague fingers"
- In some parts of the poem, it sounds as though Leda is giving herself to Zeus, whereas in other parts of the poem it sounds as though she is being ****d.
- "The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead," shows that Yeats is talking about the destruction of war and Agamemnon's demise.
- Yeats ends the poem with a rhetorical question, as he does in many of his poems, to maybe make you wonder, as he was, what would be the fate of Ireland and it's people.
- Leda = Ireland and Swan = England?
- Consensual or ****?
- Context
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